Sentence examples for armouries from inspiring English sources

Sanctions have become as sacred to western armouries as nuclear bombs were 50 years ago.

Arkansas, for example, has opened its doors to more than 70,000 of them, turning National Guard armouries into "readiness centres" and mobilising churches to take refugees into their halls.

Republicans hurried him away from the Maze prison without comment but Conservatives and unionists were quick to argue that terrorists had gained huge advantages from the agreement while holding on to their armouries.

Before the civil war, America had only two armouries, at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, and Springfield, Massachusetts (see chart 2).

Some of the police appear to have sided with militia, which set up road blocks, raided police armouries and took over a heavily-armed police gunboat.

Though the ISI appears to have cut back its ties to LET since it was banned, its armouries and military training camps in Pakistan-held Kashmir have remained in place.The bearded and purposeful men who patrol the campus in Muridke with pyjama trousers hitched halfway up their shins might be graduates of these camps.

Towton 32 suffered no fewer than 13 different blows to the head.According to Graeme Rimer of the Royal Armouries, Britain's arms museum, medieval weapons had the capacity to decapitate or amputate at a single stroke.

Across southern and central Iraq, Saddam had built them thousands of armouries many of which, no doubt, they are drawing upon still.Without good battlefield intelligence, the Americans were unable to capitalise fully on their gross technological advantage.

Ms Novak took a variety of medieval weapons from the collection of the Royal Armouries and poked them through pieces of acoustic ceiling tile to see what shape they made.

This exhibition, which has, in addition, brought together objects from Dresden, Milan, Vienna and the Royal Armouries, also includes an array of richly illustrated and scientifically sophisticated fencing manuals on long-term loan from the library of Lord Howard de Walden.

Much of this collection, which is administered as the Royal Armouries, was moved to a new museum site in Leeds in 1996.